Hollywood Hunter

Simon's pessimism about the future of the world did not affect the expansion of the Westeros system at all. In the days that followed, many plans for Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and even Africa continued to be closely advanced.

The time also quickly entered May of 2000.

On the North American side, May is coming, the summer movie schedule is approaching, and the Easter schedule in April has also come to an end.

As of May 4, "The Blair Witch 2", which is the main feature of Daenerys Entertainment's Easter schedule, was released for the third week, with another $18.61 million in revenue, pushing the film's total box office to $96.49 million. It successfully exceeded 100 million yuan, becoming the third Daenerys Entertainment film in 2000 to break into the 100 million box office club in North America.

Except for "The Blair Witch 2", some of the other six Easter films are expected to earn more than 80 million domestically, second only to "The Witch 2", and some cost 30 million, but the local box office is only less than 10 million, which is disappointing.

It is basically the normal state of a large studio.

Of course, it is the normal state of Daenerys Entertainment, which is far beyond the background of other Hollywood studios.

Also worth mentioning is "The Lost Martial Arts".

After the box office of US$5.33 million in the first week, the number of screens increased in the second week. Although the box office of the film did not reverse, but only a small decline of 7%, it received another US$4.96 million. Reached $10.29 million.

It unexpectedly exceeded 10 million in two weeks, and the original best box office expectation of 15 million US dollars for "The Lost Martial Arts" has also been raised again. Looking at the moment, it is not impossible to hit 20 million.

Although this data is nothing to Daenerys, but Jinshu, even if they can only get 30% of the gross profit share, based on the box office of only 20 million theaters in North America, they can already get 2.4 million US dollars in share , which is equivalent to nearly 20 million yuan, which is already the income level of a blockbuster movie of 100 million yuan in China.

What's more, this is only a part of the North American theater chain.

This documentary can achieve such success in North American theaters, follow-up channels, and overseas distribution, we can all look forward to it.

Because of the success of the project, after communicating with China, the two sides temporarily decided to send this documentary to the upcoming Cannes Film Festival in France. Of course, it is impossible to participate in the competition, and it is only a marketing screening to promote the project in Europe. issued.

In addition to movies, in Silicon Valley, the continued popularity of ibox-10 has driven the stocks of related companies such as Tinkber to rise steadily, and at the same time, the Nasdaq index has continued to break through new highs. After the bubble burst for the first time in March 1997, the technology stock market rushed to an unknown peak again.

Everyone knows that after the peak comes the trough, but countless investors just expect that they can escape before the trough.

Simon doesn't know how high Nasdaq can go this time, but he gradually has some expectations for the coming of the trough. Mainly, on the Fed side, Simon has received news that starting from the second half of the year, to be precise, in July, another round of US dollar interest rate hikes will start again.

It is true that raising interest rates will trigger the return of the dollar, but at the same time, it means that market liquidity has tightened, leading to a sharp drop in stock market funds.

In the original time and space, the US dollar raised interest rates around the millennium from the second half of 1999 to the first half of 2000, which lasted for about a year, and eventually caused the Nasdaq index to break through in early 2000 after breaking through 5,000 points. This time, Simon, the big butterfly, has had a great impact on the U.S. economy, one of which is this round of U.S. dollar interest rate hike cycle, which has been postponed for a full year.

The advance deployment of the Westeros system in the field of new technologies has allowed the entire Internet industry to develop three to five years ahead of schedule. The current industrial fundamentals are far better than Internet 1.0, which was only in the concept stage of speculation.

However, no matter how good the fundamentals are, there are limits after all.

Weijia’s think tank team judges that the current NASDAQ market is in a relatively healthy state of around 3,000 points, and the maximum cannot exceed 4,000 points. At around US$300 billion, it may be high, but considering the growth, it is more reasonable.

Now, the market index has more than doubled, and the market value of the leading stocks has broken through the sky, and it is still rising. In the face of the upcoming interest rate hike, another collapse is only a matter of time.

For Simon, apart from occasionally listening to people around him talk about his latest net worth, he doesn't pay much attention to the others.

Still the most important thing right now.

In front of us, in May, the first thing Simon noticed was that Russia's new president officially took office on May 7.

Simon had the opportunity to somehow completely change the political landscape of the world for the next two decades, and ultimately did not do so. As for the future, right or wrong, only time will tell.

Another thing happened as planned.

On May 11th, when the North American summer vacation began to warm up, a piece of news in Africa, which has been seldom noticed in recent years and is still in a mess, suddenly appeared in many mainstream Western media, because it involved Simon Weil. Stroll.

A large coffee plantation invested by Westeros Corporation in Angola, Africa was attacked. The plantation was burned down and more than 20 people were killed or injured.

The assailant was quickly identified as a team under the Angolan opposition Savimbi.

No one cares about the tens of millions of casualties surrounding the civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A plantation attack hits the headlines, even if it has something to do with Simon Westeros.

The sharp people still noticed the strangeness.

A Portuguese media even contacted Savimbi, the leader of the opposition armed forces who had been on good terms with the United States for a time. 'Assailant', and shouted an apology to Simon, and expressed his willingness to make compensation.

However, the Westeros family appeared to be extremely tough this time, and also issued a very extensive statement that appeared in the world's mainstream media.

First of all, of course, we must fight for moral public opinion, and reborn the support and assistance that the Westeros system has provided to Africa in politics, economy, and military over the years. Secondly, in terms of jurisprudence, the Westeros system will not Instead of acting on its own, it will join forces with the Angolan government.

In the end, it was the disposal plan. The Westeros family did not accept Savimbi's apology, and even gave an outrageous reason. Even if this matter had nothing to do with Savimbi, the attacker was also a subordinate of the other party and was jointly and severally responsible. Therefore, the Westeros family will provide multi-faceted support to assist the Angolan government to completely eradicate the Savimbi armed forces entrenched in southeastern Angola to ensure that the lives and properties of the Angolan people will no longer be threatened.

In addition to the statement, many people also noticed some statements made by several spokespersons of the Westeros family in almost the same way: Any force that dares to harm the Westeros family, whether it is those standing in front of the stage or hiding Behind the scenes, the Westeros family will resolutely pursue it to the end and fight it with an eye.

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Insiders look at the doorway.

This sudden strong argument, inexplicably, reminded some people of the rather restless 1994. Could it be that something big is going to happen in this world?